Improvement in shovels and spades



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Shovels and Sgades.

N0. 135,954 Patented Feb-18,1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE WILLIAM T. WELLS AND GEORGE E. MOREHOUSE, OFDECATUR, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT INSHOVELS AND SPADES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,954, dated February18, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM T. WELLS and GEORGE E. MOREHOUSE, ofDecatur, in

the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certainImprovements in Shovels and Spades, of which the following is aspecification Our invention relates to an improvement in shovels andspades; and consists in the corrugation of the strap or plate by whichthe handle is secured to the blade of a shovel, spade, or scoop, so asto strengthen them at the junction of the blade and handle.

Figure 1 is a front view of a scoop-shovel, and embodies our invention;Fig. 2, a front view of a spade, showing the improvement; Fig. 3, asection on the dotted lines an ac, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a section on thedotted lines zz,

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A represents the blade of a scoop-shovel, and B the handle. 0 D arestraps or plates by which the handle and blade are secured together. c dare corrugations or beads formed in the straps or plates to strengthenthem. In

Fig. 3 is shown a spade, in which the blade E and plates or straps F Gare formed and made a part of the blade. lhese plates or-straps have thecorrugations or beads, as shown at fg.

Shovels which are made in the same manner as the spades, with the platesand blades out of one piece of metal, can be formed with the corrugationor bead in the plates.

By this formation of the corrugation or head the implement isstrengthened at its weakest point, viz., at the junction of the handleand blade.

We claim as our invention- The corrugations or beads c d on the platesor straps O D, by which the blade of a shovel or spade is secured to thehandle to strengthen the same at the junction of the blade and handle,substantially as shown and described.

Witnesses:

CHARLES P. ,HOUSUM, WM. M. STEPHENS.

